Larry,
Thanks for the reply. I should have mentioned that I have tried the
cntrl-alt-F2 combination and its dead in the water. The only thing I can do
is power the machine off.
I have been doing some thinking and its *possible* that I have found a common
thread when the machine hangs. I'm beginning to think that it happens when
I'm reading/writing for a relatively long period of time to my Windows 98
partition (ie: downloading large Windows files, etc.). I'm going to test it a
little and see if thats the case.
-Chris
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> Try hitting the ctrl-alt-F2 to see if that will bring up the text
> logon screen. If it does, then hop back into your previous session with
> an ctrl-alt-F7, to see if you're "unhung".
> One other thing I've noticed, sporadically, is that some process will
> just seem to go nuts, something like ld-lo.so2 or something, and will
> take up nearly 100% of your cpu and memory. If you can bring up another
> destop and a terminal window and run TOP, you'll see this guy and his
> pid. Do a kill -9 on that pid and, while your Netscape session (in my
> case, usually) will suddenly disappear, at least it's better than
> powering off.
> Why does this happen? I don't know, just as I don't know why sometimes
> the cursor will suddenly freeze, forcing me to do the F2-F7 dance. I
> wish someone would find a cure for the problem rather than the symptoms!
>
> --
> Larry Varney
> Cold Spring, KY
> http://w3.one.net/~lvarney
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